NBC News reports: Donald Trump’s allies argued Sunday that a New York Times report revealing that Donald Trump might have avoided paying taxes for 18 years shows the Republican candidate is “genius” and the best person to implement tax reform. “What it shows is what an absolute mess the federal tax code is and that’s why Donald Trump is the …
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Roger Stone: Wikileaks Will Hit Hillary On Wednesday
Three days ago US Rep. Jerrold Nadler questioned FBI director James Comey about Trump surrogate Roger Stone’s self-proclaimed ties to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who will supposedly issue an announcement from the balcony of his London hideout on Tuesday night. Early this morning Stone posted the above tweet. Media Matters has the transcript of Nadler’s questions: REP. JERROLD NADLER (D-NY): …
Read More »Trump Responds To Federal Tax Bombshell
The Hill recaps: Donald Trump early Sunday said he knows tax laws “better than anyone who has ever run for president” following a report that he could have legally avoided paying taxes for years. The Republican presidential nominee tweeted that he is “the only one who can fix” U.S. tax laws. The New York Times reported late Saturday that a …
Read More »NORTH CAROLINA: Gun Group Raffles Off Assault Rifle With Photo Of Hillary Clinton For Target Practice
Courthouse News Service reports: A North Carolina guns right group is raffling off an AR-15 rifle, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and a portrait of Democrat Hillary Clinton to raise money for its federal political action committee. “Of course, we won’t tell you what to do with the photo, but when we ran a picture of Hillary on the front of …
Read More »Bill Maher Eviscerates Trump’s Surrogates [VIDEO]
You’ll enjoy this. Esquire recaps: “If you think you hate the establishment now,” Bill Maher cautioned viewers Friday night, “Wait until [Donald Trump] wins and the Trump surrogates—that basket of inexplicables he sends out every day to speak for him—become the establishment.” Maher then launched into an epic evisceration of people like Omarosa Manigault, Chris Christie, and Rudy Giuliani. Why …
Read More »WaPo: Trump And Breitbart Are Normalizing Bigotry
From the editorial board of the Washington Post: One of the most disturbing aspects of the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump is the legitimization it has provided for extremist discourse. Rhetoric that properly has been taboo in this country for a generation — overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism — has begun to seep back into politics, with Mr. Trump and his …
Read More »Trump In 1999: Ivanka Made Me Promise Not To Date Girls Younger Than Her And The Field Is Very Limited
The New York Daily News reports: Donald Trump must not play blackjack, because he wanted to hit on 17. The casino owner and future Republican nominee told Howard Stern in 1999 that his daughter Ivanka, who was 17 at the time, had made him swear not to date anyone younger than her. “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 …
Read More »Pepe The Frog Creator: I’m Voting For Hillary
Esquire reports: In 2005, Matt Furie—then in his early 20s—created a comic book called Boys Club in which a cartoon frog named Pepe acted out the dumb, laid-back stoner culture of post-college bros. Pepe, along with a wolf, a dancing bear, and a sarcastic dog, would play harmless pranks on one another. Furie, who was living in San Francisco at …
Read More »Trump Continues Miss Universe Attacks
Politico reports: Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Friday morning that Hillary Clinton was “duped and used” by former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado, urging his followers to “check out [her] sex tape and past.” The tweetstorm started at 3:20 a.m., when Trump sent: “Anytime you see a story about me or my campaign saying ‘sources said,’ DO NOT believe it. …
Read More »Trump’s Latest Loony Conspiracy Claim: Google Is Suppressing “Bad News” About Hillary Clinton [VIDEO]
The Guardian reports: Donald Trump has gone on the offensive after his underwhelming debate performance by criticizing debate moderator Lester Holt as biased and accusing Google of a conspiracy to rig search results in favor of Hillary Clinton. He also had surrogates attack his Democrat rival for her husband’s infidelities while suggesting she wants to “strip [the United States] of …
Read More »Eric Trump: Bill Clinton May Be The Worst Sexist Ever
Also his father will win in a landslide. Buzzfeed reports: In a radio interview on Wednesday, Eric Trump called former president Bill Clinton possibly “the worst” sexist “that’s ever lived.” The younger Trump made the comments on Sean Hannity’s radio program while discussing Hillary Clinton’s attack on Donald Trump for his treatment of 1996 Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado. Trump …
Read More »Trump Spox Katrina Pierson: Only Online Polls Are Valid Because The Media Skews Their Own Polls [AUDIO]
Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson took a page from her boss and touted Trump’s performance in post-debate online polls that have no scientific accuracy whatsoever. After conservative talk show host Joe Pags told Pierson that “news organization polling” is tilted against Trump because media outlets “have some sort of vested interested in getting …
Read More »CNN Host Busts Corey Lewandowski As Reciting Talking Points From Leaked Trump Campaign Memo [VIDEO]
Raw Story reports: CNN host Alisyn Camerota called out Corey Lewandowski on Thursday for repeating talking points from a leaked memo to Trump campaign staff. A memo obtained by CNN this week instructed official Trump campaign surrogates to hit Hillary Clinton harder, including attacks on her husband’s infidelities. When Camerota pointed out new allegations on Thursday that Donald Trump violated …
Read More »Megyn Kelly Rips Into Kellyanne Conway Over Trump’s History Of Misogynistic Comments [VIDEO]
Mediaite recaps: This is one interview that stands above the rest in a sea of truly intense Election 2016 interviews. As you’ll recall, Megyn Kelly was dragged through the mud by Donald Trump for well over a year because she asked about his history of misogynistic quotes during a primary debate. Eventually, Fox News itself had to get involved and …
Read More »RAISE YOUR HAND: Trump Jokingly Asks About Ejecting “Non-Christian Conservatives” From Iowa Rally [VIDEO]
Time Magazine reports: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called on non-Christian conservative supporters to raise their hands and seemed to ask the audience whether he should eject them from a rally in Iowa. Appearing in Council Bluffs as he rolled out it his Iowa Christian Conservatives for Trump coalition, which the campaign said included over 650 religious leaders from the …
Read More »INSIDERS: Trump Was Bored, Disinterested, Distracted During Attempts To Prep Him For The Debate
The New York Times reports: During the primaries, the group briefing him for debates was small and closely held. By the weekend before the debate on Monday at Hofstra University, there were nearly a dozen people preparing Mr. Trump, including the retired Army generals Michael Flynn and Keith Kellogg, neither of whom has experience in presidential debates. There were early …
Read More »POLL: 47% Of Trump Backers Endorse Mean Trolling
Only 47%? Via Politico: The polarizing clash between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has brought out the worst in people, even to the point of severing friendships, according to a national Monmouth University poll released Wednesday. Seven-in-10 registered voters said the presidential election has brought out the worst in people (just 4 percent said this election has brought out the …
Read More »Fox News Anchors Ignore Warning From Brass After Being Told That Online Polls Had Been Freeped By Bots
Yesterday afternoon it was revealed that tens of thousands of alt-right Trump supporters had successfully freeped over 70 post-debate online polls with bots and other techniques. That news apparently prompted a warning to Fox News’ on-air personalities. Via Business Insider: A Fox News executive sent a memo Tuesday afternoon reminding television producers and the politics team that unscientific online polls …
Read More »Twitter Deletes Trump Junior’s Comparison Of Refugees To Poisoned Skittles Over Image Copyright Claim
Ten days ago Donald Trump Jr. gained widespread scorn after he posted a tweet which compared Syrian refugees to a bowl of poisoned Skittles. Two days later it was learned that the British amateur photographer who had posted the original Skittles photo to Flickr is a former refugee himself and that he detests Donald Trump. The photographer told the press …
Read More »Jet Owner Hannity Slams Media Elites And Their “Limos, Fine Steakhouses, And Fancy Wine Lifestyles” [VIDEO]
Sean Hannity is worth $80M, lives in a 14,000 square foot mansion, and owns a private jet, but last night he decided to denounce journalists as media elites. Via Mediaite: During a lengthy monologue praising Donald Trump‘s debate performance last night, Sean Hannity attacked the media for being out of touch. His evidence of such was the fact that the …
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